However, researchers must address a variety of challenges to facilitate the widespread deployment of wsn technology in real. A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks kemal akkaya. Wireless sensor network wsn has emerged as one of the most promising technologies for the future. To illustrate this point, the differences between sensor networks and ad hoc networks are. Energy efficient target tracking and data collection in. Wireless sensor networks are currently being employed in a variety of applications ranging from smart homes to industry monitoring, and from medical investigation to military tracking. A survey of transport layer protocols for wireless sensor networks saima zafar department of electrical engineering national university of computer and emerging sciences, fastnu block b faisal town lahore pakistan abstract the reliability of data transfer is vital for commercial and. A comparative study of target tracking approaches in. Detecting and tracking a target as it moves through a sensor network has become an increasingly important application for sensor networks. In recent surge of interest in mobile sensor applications, in this paper studies the target tracking problem in a mobile sensor network msn. Survey on target tracking techniques in wireless sensor network.
A survey on energy efficient target tracking in wireless. Sensor networks, which consist of sensor nodes each capable of sensing environment and transmitting data, have lots of applications in battlefield surveillance, environmental monitoring, industrial diagnostics, etc. In this work, we survey of the state of the art of targettracking techniques in sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks wsns are spatially scattered independent sensors to track physical objects or monitor environmental data and collectively transmit the data to master station. A survey of coverage problems in wireless sensor networks. Given a sensor network, the coverage problem is to determine how well the sensing field is monitored or tracked by sensors. A survey on energy efficient target tracking techniques in. Networks and all the sensor nodes have contact with the base station. In this paper, we classify the coverage problem into three categories. A survey article pdf available in acm computing surveys 492.
Target tracking in wireless sensor networks based on the combination of kf and mle. Abstractenergyefficiency in target tracking applications has. Target localization and tracking in wireless sensor networks thesis submitted in partial ful. Target tracking in wireless sensor networks intechopen. Military applications includes surveillance and target tracking. Review article a comparative study of target tracking. The rapid deployment, selforganization and fault tolerance characteristics of sensor networks make them a very promising sensing technique for military c4isrt. A survey paper on security protocols of wireless sensor. Review article a comparative study of target tracking approaches in wireless sensor networks asmaaezzaidiandsaidrakrak laboratory of applied mathematics and computer science lamai, faculty of science and technology, cadi ayyad university. Markov decision processes with applications in wireless sensor networks. Target tracking has its own impact on many applications and also it requires more pay on network design and implementation for both target and tracking system.
Localization is the process by which an object determines its spatial coordinates in a given. The node consists of a 16bit ti microcontroller, 4 mbits offchip flash memory, a 900 mhz radio, and a gps unit. A survey on target tracking in welldeployed wireless sensor networks shengnan li a. Evaluations of target tracking in wireless sensor networks. We identify three different formulations for the target tracking problem and classify the target tracking algorithms based on common characteristics. One of the key applications of wsns, which gained much attention, is the target tracking. The number of sensor nodes in a sensor network can be several orders of magnitude higher than the nodes in an ad hoc network.
A survey of target tracking methods in wireless sensor networks reshma. Applications of wireless sensor networks a survey ieee. A survey in target tracking algorithms for sensor networks. A survey on localization for wireless sensor network. The camera nodes provide information from a monitored site, performing. A wireless sensor network wsn has important applications such as remote environmental monitoring and target tracking. Sensor nodes are used in wide range of applications such as security, military, and environmental monitoring. Abstracttarget tracking is one of the non trivial applications of wireless sensor network which is set up in the areas of field surveillance, habitat monitoring. We identify three different formulations for the targettracking problem and classify the target. First chapter a survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks.
An analysis of each technique is presented along with it advantages, problems and possible improvements. This paper examines some of the target tracking techniques in use today. A survey on secure localization in wireless sensor networks avinash srinivasan and jie wu florida atlantic university, boca raton, fl, usa keywords. A survey on target tracking techniques in wireless sensor networks. Pdf target tracking as it moves through a sensor network has become an increasingly important application in wireless sensor networks. Consisting of a large number of lowpower camera nodes, visual sensor networks support a great number of novel visionbased applications. Abstract wireless sensor networks wsns find its application in areas such as target detection and tracking, environmental monitoring, industrial process. Adaptive quantized target tracking in wireless sensor networks. This has been enabled by advances in technology and availability of small, inexpensive, and smart sensors resulting in cost effective and easily deployable wsns.
A wireless sensor network has been designed to perform the highlevel of information processing tasks like detection, classification and tracking. Sensor networks and wireless sensor networks are a rapidly emerging research. These tiny sensor nodes are deployed in the target. Since optimizing the tracking system under the energy and coverage constraints in dsns is of paramount importance, in this paper. The number of sensor nodes in a sensor network can be several orders of magnitude higher than the nodes in an ad hoc. These networks are used to monitor physical or environmental conditions like sound, pressure, temperature, and cooperatively pass data through the network to the main location as shown in the figure. Wireless sensor networks make use of a centralized approach. Survey of target tracking protocols using wireless sensor network. A survey on target tracking in welldeployed wireless. In target tracking function, sensor node senses the.
Adversary, attack, beacon, intruder, localization, security, wireless sensor networks. Zebranet is composed of sensor nodes built into the zebras collar. Wireless sensor networks have been the subject of intense research in recent years. A survey of security issues in wireless sensor networks. Chowdhury broadband and wireless networking laboratory, school of electrical and computer engineering, georgia institute of technology. Wsn is being explored in many applications such as home security, smart spaces, environmental monitoring, battlefield surveillance and target tracking. Since the number of sensor increases in the network, more messages are not sent to the sink and uses extra bandwidth. A survey on sensor networks university of california. A survey of transport layer protocols for wireless sensor. Thepositionofsensornodesneednotbeengineered or predetermined. The differences between sensor networks and ad hoc networks are 4. This has been enabled by the availability, particularly in recent years, of sensors that are smaller, cheaper, and intelligent. A survey on communication protocols for wireless sensor.
This paper examines some of the target detection and tracking algorithms in use today. Keywords wireless sensor network, target tracking methods, protocols, metrics, research issues. The traditional target tracking methods for wireless sensor networks utilizes the centralized approach. In industrial applications, sensor networks are used in monitoring hazardous. A survey thakshila wimalajeewa, senior member, ieee and pramod k varshney, life fellow, ieee abstractin this survey paper, our goal is to discuss recent advances of compressive sensing cs based solutions in wireless sensor networks wsns including the. Kajal jadhav, jeet mirani, suvarna mohite, sonali kolekar. As the number of sensors rise in the network, more.
Implementation of the target tracking in mobile sensor. For instance, in a target detectiontracking application, the event phenomenon is dynamic whereas forest monitoring for early. Evaluations of target tracking in wireless sensor networks sam phu manh tran t. Coverage which is one of the most important performance metrics for sensor networks reflects how well a sensor field is monitored.
Monitoring wireless sensor network performance by tracking node operational deviation. Wireless sensor networks can be an integral part of military command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting c4isrt systems. In proceedings of the 2014 7th international symposium on telecommunications. Wireless sensor networks wsns are employed in a variety of applications. Applications of wireless sensor networks a survey abstract. On energy efficiency in collaborative target tracking in wireless.
The energy of nodes, communication computing and storage capability in wireless sensor networks are limited. A survey on wireless multimedia sensor networks ian f. Wsn is deployed in numerous fields such as animal tracking, precision agriculture, environmental. A survey of target tracking methods in wireless sensor. Markov decision processes with applications in wireless.
This allows random deployment in inaccessible terrains or disaster relief operations. Recent advances in wireless sensor networks wsns have led to many new promising applications including habitat monitoring and target tracking. However, data communication between nodes consumes a large portion of the total energy consumption of the wsns. Visual sensor networks have emerged as an important class of sensorbased distributed intelligent systems, with unique performance, complexity, and quality of service challenges. Nodes in such wsn applications generally operate with limited battery capacity for a long time 2. Andrew yang university of houston clear lake 2700 bay area blvd. In this work we have discussed applications and various issues of target tracking in wireless sensor networks and made a survey on related works. A wireless sensor network is composed of tiny sensor nodes each capable of sensing some phenomenon, doing some limited data processing and communicating with each other 1. A survey on secure localization in wireless sensor networks. One of the key application of wsn is target tracking. Directional sensor networks dsns are a subset of wsns with some unique characteristics.
Zebranet system is a mobile wireless sensor network used to track animal migrations. Target tracking as it moves through a sensor network has become an increasingly important application in wireless sensor networks. A survey mohammad abu alsheikh y, dinh thai hoang, dusit niyato, hweepink tan and shaowei lin school of computer engineering, nanyang technological university, singapore 639798. One of the most interesting applications in wireless sensor networks is target tracking, which mainly consists in detecting and monitoring the motion of mobile targets. Wireless sensor networks wsn contain tiny, lightweight nodes that are highly distributed and organized in large number through wireless links that cooperate with each other in order to sense phenomena, collect and process data and transmit sensed information to the user. Efficient target tracking in directional sensor networks. Wsn is a wireless network that consists of base stations and numbers of nodes wireless sensors. A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks.
In this work, we survey of the state of the art of target tracking techniques in sensor networks. A survey of secure target tracking algorithms for wireless. Secure data aggregation in wireless sensor network. Pdf targettracking algorithms typically organize the network into a logical structure e. Pdf a survey on target tracking techniques in wireless sensor. Many applications of wsns require the knowledge of nodes location. A survey on energy aware protocols for wireless sensor. Target tracking in noisy wireless sensor network using artificial neural network. Target localization and tracking in wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor network protocols sensor network services sensor network deployment survey abstract a wireless sensor network wsn has important applications such as remote environmental monitoring and target tracking. Monitoring and algorithm is always executed at the base station and result is distributed to the sensor nodes. Introduction to wireless sensor networks types and. Target tracking is an important problem in wireless sensor networks, where it dictates how accurate a targets position can be measured and found.
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